- What are some good sites for researching etymology? [closed]
Here is an example of a directed graph: It works in multiple languages, providing etymology data, descendants, related words and more It also has a pretty quick search, and the index is constantly growing in the number of words and slowly growing in accuracy too
- etymology - Where did the term OK Okay come from? - English Language . . .
The Choctaw etymology remained more esoteric common knowledge until Woodrow Wilson's time, and continued to be common knowledge until Read purposefully substituted a cock-and-bull fake etymology for it
- etymology - “-gram” vs. “-graph” - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
What’s the difference between the suffixes -gram and -graph? Is there any difference? Even if they are completely synonymous, what’s the difference in etymology? For example, pictograph vs pictog
- etymology - Where does Santa in Santa Claus come from? - English . . .
The name "Santa Claus" comes from a dialect of Dutch, where the word was "Sante Klaas" In this case, it was not a feminine suffix; the word evolved into Santa, which only coincidentally looks like the feminine form of saint in some languages (The Dutch word does come from the same origins as the Spanish and Portuguese, incidentally; most Germanic languages borrowed this Romance word and made
- etymology - what are the origins of hi, hey, hello? - English Language . . .
The question of the etymology of hello is a fascinating puzzle According to the the OED it was originally an Americanism derived from the British hallo which has its origins in the Old German "halâ, holâ, emphatic imperative of halôn, holôn to fetch, used especially in hailing a ferryman " However other dictionaries (such as Dictionary com) cite an origin in the Romance word "hola", an
- etymology - Is holiday derived from holy day? - English Language . . .
The answers are above, but Barnhart's Dictionary of Etymology offers a bit more: Old English had a concurrent open compound halig daeg, found later in Middle English holy day, which became modern English holiday, meaning both a religious festival and a day of recreation This eventually replaced the earlier form haliday, leaving two forms holiday and holy day
- etymology - Where does the word grateful come from? - English . . .
It has nothing to do with modern "grates" but everything to do with gratitude, since it's the state of feeling gratitude towards someone or something Grateful and gratitude, though, actually come from an archaic adjective "grate" meaning thankful, which derives from the Latin "gratus" (not to be confused with "gratis"), meaning pleasing, agreeable, thankful, etc It's loosely related to
- etymology - When did the a an distinction happen? - English Language . . .
Why do we have two versions of the indefinite article? When did this happen? Are there any texts where only one is used?
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